Seen at work today: "G20: building the world economy by crippling a local one". Seriously, downtown is a ghost town; everybody who could closed. With only three points of entry to the area, all under heavy security, and a mere handful of prospective customers (1500 G20 people, 2000 media? that's chump change for the convention center), how could they expect to do enough business to be worthwhile?

I'm still kind of boggled by this being here. We're a great example of turning a bad economy around? Well yes, we were, but currently the city is in receivership! And the state is nearly 90 days past due on a budget! Um, what?